{"id":134359,"date":"2017-08-21T16:09:49","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T22:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/21\/trading-business-for-censorship.html"},"modified":"2017-08-21T19:59:22","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T01:59:22","slug":"trading-business-for-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/21\/trading-business-for-censorship.html","title":{"rendered":"Trading business for censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Cambridge University Press has backed away from its initial (temporary?) plans to have a China-specific website for its prestigious China Quarterly<\/i> journal that adhered to Chinese government requests as to content. Though it would have kept a copy of its materials intact for the rest of the world (presumably until some other country asked for a country-specific website), the Chinese-focused version would have left out some 300 articles related to “the crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square in 1989, policies toward Tibetan and Uighur ethnic minorities, Taiwan and the 1966 – 76 Cultural Revolution”.<\/p>\n

As China becomes a larger and larger market, the question of how to engaged with its stringent rules as what materials and products may or may not be shared becomes more and more significant. While Cambridge University Press faced serious academic backlash about this, other countries have made similar noises about materials that should be taken down for a variety of reasons, from cultural distaste to intellectual property considerations to political dislike to privacy expectations. Some of them have insisted only on a “local” version for their people; others have demanded the Internet as a whole reflect their standards.<\/p>\n

It is unclear where this will end, even as the world’s intellectual and economic power shifts and grows. I’d like to think that maximal freedom of information would apply, but I’m sure that even I have things that I would disagree with full global publication of.<\/p>\n


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\nIn reversal, Cambridge University Press restores articles after China censorship row<\/a><\/span>
\nThe Cambridge University Press faced academic outrage after agreeing to remove articles about Tibet, Tiananmen Square and China’s Cultural Revolution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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